Example sentences of "a [num] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3 Walk part of the Pennine Way on a eight and a half mile circular walk , north of Calder . |
| 2 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |
| 3 | She now has in her possession a Vox Standard 25 , a Yamaha SG3000 , two acoustics and two Fender Jaguars , a 1963 and a 1968 model . |
| 4 | They each completed a six and a half mile circuit — in aid of Centrepoint , the charity which helps London 's homeless . |
| 5 | The association between Cryptosporidium , chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy was reviewed over a six and a half year period . |
| 6 | ‘ In my lunch hour I run a three and a half mile circuit of the village where I work . |
| 7 | The Apothecaries looked no further ; they approached Charles Cheyne , a Chelsea landowner of some substance , who agreed , in 1673 , to let the Society a three and a half acre plot at a rent of £5 per annum . |
| 8 | When it became apparent that the land was too small to construct a museum on , the Terras bought a three and a half acre site opposite the Monet gardens . |
| 9 | All right I 'll bring in a sixty minute tape ask him tonight , okay and I 'll bring in a sixty and a ninety minute , okay . |
| 10 | Costs for a five and a half-day week are therefore £37,125 or £1,930,500 per year . |
| 11 | This includes a minimum wage for a five and a half day week , and daily and hourly rates for part-time workers , maternity rights , annual leave and sick leave , payslips and proper contracts of employment . |
| 12 | At the moment it is a nine and a half year loan and then the pictures leave . |
| 13 | The Silurian Way is a nine and a half mile route which takes you round the central area of the forest reaching its high point at Carron Crag at 1,031ft . |
| 14 | There 's still a one and a half hour gap to be accounted for , and any link between Pinder and Dominic Wetherby would change the emphasis completely . |
| 15 | The woman , who has not been named , suffered a one and a half hour ordeal in her car , which only ended after the Ford Fiesta broke down in Cheshire . |
| 16 | So your decode that you miss on Wednesday makes an appearance along with the other decode that normally lives on Thursday in a one and a half hour session from nine to ten forty . |
| 17 | There is a one and a half mile circular nature trail around the reserve , which is definitely worth doing . |
| 18 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 19 | It 's only really a four and a half hour roundabout is n't it ? |
| 20 | It might become just the thing to have a plant standing in a four and a half inch pot which contains a cool five grand in shredded tenners . |
| 21 | These er , these mi might be the same , but you ca n't expect to have to stop sound going through a four and a half inch wall can you ? |
| 22 | Freer : a Legacy of Art by Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill ( £40 , $49.50 ) tells Freer 's story as a collector and celebrates the reopening of the Smithsonian 's Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC on Sunday , 9 May , its seventieth anniversary , after a four and a half year renovation project . |
| 23 | In the Brandeston forge the smith kept a four and a half gallon barrel of beer under the bench , and the men got their allowances of First Nail from this . |
| 24 | We did say at the discussion , that we did a four and a half day or a five day construction site safety |
| 25 | But with Essex six behind at Diss overall , a supreme effort was needed and Whiteman scored a four , three singles , a two and a final count of four to take the match 28–14 . |
| 26 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 27 | Having located the vessel , a yacht called Sualidaz with three people aboard , FAB 3 towed her into Weymouth — a two and a half hour tow at abut 8 knots . |
| 28 | Very often , I have gone to interview somebody , having told them I want a two and a half minute interview , and I want to cover roughly the following five topics . |
| 29 | Do I just switch off the tape recorder and go back and say , ‘ Here 's a two and a half minute speech ’ ? |
| 30 | I have returned this year after a two and a half year break ) to a 100% improvement within your magazine — correction my magazine . |